| 释义 |
ˈsplatter-faced, a. Now dial.
[Cf. prec.]
Having a broad flat face.
1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 346 You splatter-fac'd Cully! 1785G. A. Bellamy Apology (ed. 3) I. 26 This goggle-eyed, splatter-faced, gabbart-mouthed wretch, is not my child! 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. vi, A splatter-faced wench neither civil nor nimble! 1894in Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. |
